The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.
The ALCF is accelerating scientific discoveries in many disciplines, ranging from chemistry and engineering to physics and materials science.
The ALCF is committed to providing training and outreach opportunities that prepare researchers to efficiently use its leadership computing systems, while also cultivating a diverse and skilled HPC workforce for the future.
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.
Help Desk Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm CT M-F Email: support@alcf.anl.gov
Access archived presentations and other materials from past ALCF training events below.
Type Video Topic Data Science System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This session gives an overview of using Tensorflow, Pytorch, and JAX are the core deep learning frameworks on ALCF production resources. All three frameworks are accessible in python (and a few other...
Type Video Topic Performance Tools System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This video shows how to use HPCToolkit performance tools for CPU and GPU-accelerated applications and provides resources for you to get started.
This video discusses distributed deep learning. It covers parallelization schemes, distributed training frameworks, and I/O and data management.
Type Video Topic Debugging Tools System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This provides an overview of using THAPI and iprof to debug.
Type Video Topic Data Science System AI Testbed Published 10/11/2023
This session covers LLMs and how to get started running LLMs at the ALCF.
Type Video Topic Programming Models System Polaris Published 10/10/2023
This session explains Kokks and RAJA and provides an example on how to do a simple loop execution.
Type Video System Polaris System Aurora | Sunspot Published 10/10/2023
Type Video Topic Getting Started System Polaris System Aurora | Sunspot Published 10/10/2023
This video gives a very detailed look into Polaris and Aurora's hardware and software. This covers everything you need to know about each system.
Type Video Topic Applications and Libraries System Polaris Published 10/10/2023
Type Video Topic Account and Project Management Published 10/10/2023
This video provides an overview of ALCF allocation programs available to users and outlines what is required to get time on our systems.
This session covers why and how to use OpenMP.
This session explains SYCL and compares it to CUDA. This is a good place to start if you want to see if SYCL is right for your project.
Type Video Topic Programming Models System Aurora | Sunspot Published 09/27/2023
Join us on September 27, 2023, for an insightful webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads for ALCF's Aurora exascale system. Led by Intel's Varsha Madananth, the session will explore some of the best...
Type Video Topic Running Jobs Topic Compiling and Linking System Aurora | Sunspot Published 08/30/2023
Join us on August 30 for a Developer Session intended for users new to the ALCF's Sunspot and Aurora systems. It is expected that the users have prior experience on large ALCF and non-ALCF machines...
Type Slides Published 08/09/2023
Type Video Topic Getting Started System Polaris Published 07/19/2023
The ALCF Getting Started Bootcamp will introduce attendees to using the Polaris computing environment. Aimed at participants who have experience using clusters or supercomputers, the bootcamp will...
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 07/07/2023
Join us on June 21 for a webinar that will provide the latest updates on Aurora’s hardware architecture and software. Speakers from Intel will cover an array of topics related to Aurora hardware...
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 06/14/2023
This is the second module in the newest Aurora Learning Paths series - Accelerate Python Loops with the Intel AI Analytics Toolkit. Ignite performance of common Python, ndarray & pandas “apply”...
Type Video System Aurora | Sunspot Published 05/25/2023
Join us on May 24 for a webinar that will cover the Aurora porting strategies for two applications: the XGC gyrokinetic plasma physics code and the HACC cosmology code. Argonne's Aaron Scheinberg &...
